VOL 72 No. 44
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, November 9, .1961
Seventy-Second Year
PRICE TEN CENTS
Popnlation
Greater Kings Mountain
City Limits
XMs figure tot Qnatn Xing* Mountain
mo IMS Kings Mountain city directory
(faults Sim is from ths Units* Statss
10,320
8,008
Is dsitrsd tram
census. Ths city
csasus of I960.
Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspaper
Today
Elections Chairman Outlines
Ideas For Improving System
Optimist Club
Is Promoting
Youth Week
Kings Mountain Optimists are
calling attention tliis week to the
observance beginning Monday of
"Youth Appreciation Week.”
Dean Payne, president of the
local club, notes that over 2000
Optimist clubs in the United Sta
tes and Canada will attempt dur
ing the week ending November
19th to “give praise and under
standing where they are over
due” to young people who abide
toy the rules of juvenile decency.
(Mr. Payne called on Kings
(Mountain area citizens “help the
Optimists give today’s young
people the pat on the back they
need and deserve.”
Further commenting on Youth
Appreciation Week Mr. Payne
said:
“What is a Teenager Made
Of?”
“A teenager has passed the “sti
cks and snails and puuy-dog's
tails” stage. By the time he rea
ches his teens, he’s a loosely
wrapped bundle of mature thou
ghts and desires in a suddenly
Shooting up body. He finds him
self in a new world, no longer
fenced by the school playground
and the backyard sandbox. The
world of a teenager is bonded
only by the limits of his imagina
tion.
iln this boundless life of plea
sures and problems of growing
up shines one star to which ev
ery teenager hitches bfts wagon—
the star of adult recognition, ap
preciation and understanding.
Each youngster wants to be ac
cepted toy his pear*; -each young
ater worries about belonging.
“Some teenagers are unusually
gifted: they achieve their star of
recognition by excelling on the
football field or by making honor
roll grades. But less than five per
cent of the millions of teenagers
of today are thus gifted.
"At the other end of the scale,
a youth, frustrated in his desire
because he isn’t mentally or phy
sically equipped to compete with
quiz kids or sports stars, achiev
es the recognition he craves by
breaking the law. Fortunately,
less than five per cent of today’s
young people seek recognition so
violently.
"But what of the majority of
young people in the 'middle? Ov
er 90 percent of today’s teenagers,
hungry for recognition and ap
preciation, are passed by because
■their names don’t make news.
Consequently, this huge middle
majority often carries the bur
den of the bad name that a few
misguided teenagers have earned
for themselves.
"Give youth a confident start
in the long journey to tomorrow
with a gesture of appreciation to
day.” 1
Local News
Bulletins
COURT OF HONOR
Court of Honor for Kings
Mountain district Boy Scouts
will be held on November 16th
* at 7:45 p. m. at Central Metho
dist church. The Court will be
held one week later due to the
annual business meeting.
COMPLETES TRAINING
Marine Pvt. Donald Wayne
Burton, son of B. T. Burton of
518 Phenix street and Mans. Le
ona Anthony of Pompano Bea
ch, Fla, has completed recruit
training at Parris Island, S. C.
He entered the service in Oc
tober.
KIWANIS CLUB
Col. Joe Speckman, retired
Colonel in the Marine Corps,
will address Kings Mountain
Riwandans ait (their Thursday
night meeting at the Woman’s
club. Coll. Speckman will speak
on a program arranged by
Booth Gillespie.
AT CONFERENCE
Rev. George T. Moore, pastor
ot Resurrection Lutheran
church, is in Washington, D. C.
this week representing the
Lutheran Synod at a regional
conference on church occupa
tions. The meeting is under di
rection of the Board of Higher
Education of tile Untied Luth
rmn Church in America.
GOOD CITIZEN — Jean Harlow,
high school senior, was chosen
Good Citizen of the month by her
senior classmates.
Jean Harlow
Good Citizen
'Jean Harlow, Kings Mountain
high school senior, was named
Citizen of the Month by her
classmates for October.
'Miss Harlow makes her home
here with her aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Arrowood.
She is an honor student, member
of the National Honor Society,
Mountaineer staff, French club,
Future Teacher’s and the annual
staff.
She expects to become an art
teacher or English instructor.
Mrs. Williams'
Bites Conducted
(Final rites for Mrs. Emma Mae
Ware Williams, 79, wife of Wray
A. Williams, were held Monday
afternoon at 3 p. m. from Central
Methodist church of which she
was a member.
Mlrs. Williams died suddenly
Sunday morning of a heart at
tack. Though! she had 'been hos
pitalized for two weeks in the
local hospital, her death was un
expected. She was1 a native of
Cleveland County, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Ware.
iln addition to her husband she
is survived by one son, Hugh
(Otto) Williams; three daughters,
Mrs. Francis O. Hunt of Lexing
ton, Mrs. Elmer McGill of Kings
Mountain, and Mrs. Welford S.
Bill lock of Seaboard; two sisters,
Miss Leone Ware of Kings
Mountain and Mrs. Jasper L.
Brinson of Pelham, Ga.; two
brothers, Robert Ware of Kings
Mountain and Wright Ware of
Newton; and one granddaughter,
Jan Williams.
The funeral rites were conduc
ted by Rev. H. D. Garmon, assis
ted by Rev. IB. L. Raines. Inter
ment was in Mountain Rest ce
metery.
Sanford Urges
Defense Work
Mayor Kelly Dixon has receiv
ed a letter from Governor Terry
Sanford urging the active cooper
ation of the city with state and
county governments in non-mili
tary defense.
The Governor wrote, “Local
government officials share an e
quail responsibility with the fed
eral and state governments in
survival planning . . . "
He added, "In North Carolina
we believe in doing everything
we can to help ourselves. The'
dangerous aspects of major dis
aster are greatly Increased Where
there is no plan to cope with it
and where workers are not train
ed in emergency services ...”
Two Kings Mountain firemen
have already attended the Civil]
Defense school at Brooklyn, N. Y.J
C. D. Ware studying rescue work, j
and T. C. McKee studying fall.!
out shelter construction.
Index System,
Less Precincts
Possibilities
B>- MARTIN HARMON
Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the
county elections hoard, was doing
some thinking aloud Wednesday
; morning in the wake of Tuesday’s
I statewide 'bond election on poss
ibilities of making the county e
; lection system more efficient,
' easier for the voter and less cost
ly
Specifically, Chairman Gilbert
is thinking along these lines:
1) Recommending to the coun
ty commission a new registra
tion, largely for the purpose of
establishing a card index system
In the heavily - populated pre
cincts of Kings Mountain and
Shelby to avoid jam-ups such as
| occurred in Kings Mountain dur
ing the 1960 general election.
2) Immediate consolidation of
i six small precincts into three,
Queens with Dover, Sharon with
Boiling Springs, and Delight with
Folkvilie. Chairman Gilbert no
ted that Queens, Sharon and De
light cast small vote totals and
that the consolidations would
I leave one precinct per township,
I rather than two. He said there
would be no geographical prob
j lem. This consolidation he guess
ed, would enable the county to
cut its election expense by $1500
per election.
3) Experimentation with voting
machines at one or two precincts,
with eventual possibility of redu
cing the number of precincts,
now 28, to one per township, 11.
County Auditor Max Hamrick
has previously noted it requires
a manimum to $3500 tq $4000 to
hcfld a Cdbrity-^ide election.
Chairman Gilbert added these
details: minimum salary cost for
election officials, whom he con
siders underpaid, for each pre
cinct is $140; the election books
are expensive; there are mileage
allowances, rents for voting pla
cs, and other miscellaneous ex
penses.
The voting machine and con
| solidation to 11 precincts he re
gards as a long-term experiment,
i “It is well-known that voting
: machines, particularly with long
ballots such as in a general elec
tion or long-ticket primary, tend
to slow actual voting,” Chairman
Gilbert said, guessing that it
would require up to five machin
es to handle the voting in the
large precincts of Shelby and
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Shelby Architect
Flint U Chosen
To Design School
Architeats Associates, Shelby
architectural firm, was chosen
by Kings Mountain Board of Ed
ucation members Thursday to
doesign and engineer the pro
posed $1 million consolidated
high school.
The firm consists of four arch
itects and an engineer. Robert S
Ormand, Fred Van Wageningen,
Thomas W. Cothran, C. L. Vaugh
an, architects, and Engineer
Marion Packard compose the
firm.
Widely experienced in school
plant construction, the firm is
presently engaged in planning
the proposed new Crest High
school for the Boiling Springs a
rea. '
The firm recently completed a
new building at Jackson Training
school and are now engaged in
building an industrial arts build
ing at Appalachian State Teach
ers College.
A million and a quarter dollar
high school in Moeksvillle, in Da
vie County, opened this fall, was
designed by the firm.
Supt. B. N. Barnes noted the
architects wil start work imme
diately toward selection of a site
and working up preliminary ske
tches.
fn other action the board:
1) (Authorized Supt. Barnes to
secure an elementary school li
brarian.
2) Awarded a contract for a
new roof at East Elementary
School to Norman Harris and
Son, of Shelby, ait a price of
$2325.
May Cherry Tree
Yields Two Crops
Clyde Bumgardner, route 1,
York Road resident, has a crazy
mixed-up cherry tree. It bare
fruit twice this year.
And who's "to blame? The
weatherman, naturally.
Mr. Bumgardner dropped a
twig by' the Herald Fid day to
furnish proof of the phenomen.
Attached were two plump, red
cherries.
Bumgardner said the tree is
(the May variety, produces only
one yield per year normally.
He said he noticed the tree
wias blooming again sometime
back, and discovered ripe cher
ries on its branches last Thurs
day.
He feels the warm October
and November weather crossed
the tree up.
But weather wizards promis
ed to set matters straight Wed
nesday, calling for a cold front
to pa^s through this area,
bringing chillly temperatures.
New Meters Installed, Recreation
Body To Ash Honor System Demise
The city installed 160 new par
king meters over the weekend,
and motorists got their first look
—and business — with them on
Monday.
Meantime, the recreation com
mission anticipates renewing its
recommendation to the city board
of commissioners, probably at
Thursday night's regular meet
ing, that it abrogate the honor
system on parking at meters and
again put teeth' into the enforce
ment of the meter system. Many
over-parkers ignore the request
to pay, officials report.
'At the time the new meters
were purchased the recration
commission (which benefits by
receipts from the meters, but
provides for their superintenden
ce) recommended: 1) an over
parking fee of 25 cents, if paid
within 24 hours; 2) an over-park
ing fee of $1 if paid after 24
hours but within 72 hours; and
3) a summons to city court, if
the fee were not paid within 72
hours.. City court costs approxi
mate $19.
City Clerk Joe McDaniel, al
so secretary-treasurer of the rec
reation commission, acknowledg
ed there had been some criticism
of the recreation commission’s;
proposals, particularly the one
giving only two days In which to
pay the $1 fee prior to summons
to court. He said this reeommen-l
dation might be eased. Additnon
ly, he said it might be possible
the court would make an arran
gement where only half the
court costs would be assessed, as
the practice of handling cases in
volving certain other minor traf
fiv violations.
Under the recreation commis
sion plan, coin boxes would be
placed on the meters at intervals
to facilitate the quarter pay
ments by over-parkers.
This system is similar to that
used by Shelby and Monroe.
The new meters represent an
investment of $7744, at $44 net
each, including seven spare heads
to use as replacements should
others need repair. The seller, Mc
Gee-Hale Park-o-Meter Company,
price their meters ot $57 50, al
lowed the city $13.50 each for the
replaced group bought in 1948.
Meters in the Cherokee parking
lot, .bought in 1955, were not re
placed and were termed “in good
condition.”
The city made no cash outlay
for the new meters. They will be
paid for by sending the metar
company GO percent of each mon
th’s receipts.
A slight bargain is in stone for
some motorists at some of the
meters. On suggestion of the sal
esman, a traffic engineer, City
Clerk McDaniel said, met»rs giv
ing two-hour parking for five
cents were installed in areas
where parking is relatively light.
Number 4 Township For Lone
Bond Issue, County Only Two
County Favors
Mental Hospital,
Hospital Issues
Olpwlansl _
Cleveland County citizens riif
S?w!thhfhy and nam>w
CarolfoL^I^ n^Jority of North
Carohm voters Tuesday as about
J500 citizens supported two of
| ten statewide bond issues wml
^afe^de vote was opposing
«^<?lev?,*®TKi supported a
$7.4 million bond issue for men
tal hospitals toy 315 votes Jd
tCUoSH 3°-wte margin ^
Tne 5500,000 proposed bond issue
Clevelanders defeated by onlv
one vote the proposal for $11
bonds for state training and cor
rection institutions.
Most disfavored was the pro
P®saL'to Provide $2.56 million for
anH archlves an<l history
Cleveland b°ndS’ d<rfeated ^
Cleveland by an even 700 votes
while the 'second least popular
mflli ^ P'SX>Sal to issue $2.S
nWhon in tends to build to cap
itol area buildings, defeated in
Cleveland by 679 votes.
Chairman Gilbert said the vote
fotel surpriseti him, thoug h
*dn t approach the total of the
th^ ?o^£aI election when more
than 18,000 cast ballots. .
The official vote canvas will be
Unof^ 1Thursday morning
Unofficial county returns on
each of the ten is sues ™ eoS
***** & Qhaimian Gilbert, were:
il On issuance of $2.8 million
KrasSJS'*’6 1350
"’t^TSSSSi^S
'00rreofcional institu
tions, 1711 for> 1712 against.
,vJL°? issuance of $31 million
ro«d® ^Tjtoto educational instl
I644 for- 1774 against.
boJdJ of 5148 milhon
SfJ i7^™nUnlty ullages,
roiy for, 1796 agaanst.
bonL°rLiSSUance of $2 57 million
bonds for archives and history
Sr^raiy tondS' 1306 for’ 2056
br,nL°fJSSUanc'e of $13-5 million
bonds for state ports, 1510 for,
1863 against.
JL°'LiSSUanc'e of $7A million
^ls,^or1 mental institutions,
1868 for, 1553 against.
8), issuance of $500,000 hos
pital bonds, 1726 for, 1696 a
gaanst.
. 9). °" issuance of $961,000
bonds for natural resources can
1433 for’ 1928 against.
hrvnHc ^ issuance of $289,000
“mto® fur agricultural researo}
improvements
1477 for, 1895 against.
Lutherans Host
For Conference
Rings Mountain’s two Luther
an Churches will be host next
Thursday, November 13th, to the
So,ftlleTr'n Conference of the U
CarolingUth*ran Synod of North
wi'theih0nf<?!nCe logins at 9:30
with the Service of Holy Com
munion. Rev. Jacob L. Lackey
conference president, will preach
the communion sermon. The for
mal opening and business ses-!
saon begin at 11 a. m. '
mTUrng wlH ^ held at St. j
Matthew’s Lutheran church. i
pj?ey_2®0rge T- Mioore, pastor of1
Resurrection Lutheran church is
program chairman. The conferen
ees are being arranged by the
Synods committee on Foreign
Mission of which Mr. Moore is
also chairman.
'Fallowing luncheon an after
noon program will feature the
conference theme, “Foreign Mis
saons” same theme being used at
au five conferences meeting dur
ing the week of November 13.
5°h« V" Yosft’ Jr’’ Pa®tor of
Hickmys Holy Trinity Lutheran !
eburch, will speak on “Missions
in the Merged Chuach” and Rev
N. Earl Townsend, missionary
pastor to Argentina, will bring
the principal address, “The Miss
ionary Task in Latin America.” I
WIN GOD AND COUNTRY AWARD — Billy and Joe Patterson, twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patterson, won the God and Country
scouting award Sunday during services at Central Methodist church.
Mrs. Patterson is pinning the award on Joe and Mr. Patterson stands
beside Billy Patterson. In the background are Wilson Griffin, chair
man of the church's official board, and Rev. H. D. Gannon, pastor of
tho church.
NEW PASTOR _ Rev. H. G.
Clayton, new pastor of First
Church of the Nazarene, will lead
a week of evangelistic services
beginning Sunday at his church.
Mr. Clayton came to Kings
Mountain from Columbia, S. C.
He attended People's Bible coll
ege of Greensboro. Services are
at 7 p. m. nightly.
Gloria et Patna
Award Presented
Patterson Twins
A feature of the 11 o’clock wor
ship service at Central Methodist
Church last Sunday was presenta
tion of seoutings’ Highest award
for Christian service, “The God
and Country Award," to the twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pat
terson, Billy and Joe 'Patterson,
of 207 East Parker street.
Billy and Joe Patterson have
been active in scouting, receiving
their Eagle Scout awards this
past year. To receive the God and
Country Award they met requir
ements Which called for a years’
work and service projects under
the direction of their minister,
Rev. H. D. Garmon.
ThC scouts were presented to
the church by Wilson Griffin,
Chairman of the official board
with words of commendation for
the fine work those "young men
have done in the field of scout-j
mg.’’ Rev. Garmon made the pre-j
sentation with highest praise for I
the twins and their work and
participation in the scouting pro
gram.
Billy and Joe Patterson are
members of Scout Troop No. 294.
Scoutmaster Sherman Perry had
the highest praise for these boys
as "topnotoh scouts.’’ These two
boys were among the group that
spent six weeks at Camp Phil
mont this past summer.
Local Funds Budget Of $521,835
Foi Area Schools Is Approved
BY DAVID BAITY
A $521,835 budget for the Kings
Mountain Administrative school
unit was approved toy the board
of county commissioners Mon
day after prior approval Thurs
day by members of the Kings
Mountain Board of Education.
Tiie budget approval included
$247,013 in current expense funds
and $274,821 in capital outlay
funds.
The capital outlay allotment
included a $209,061 operating
balance from the 1960-61 school
session.
The approved budget of the ex
panded district compares with a
$360,292 figure approved last
year.
The hike of $161,543 stems
from the recent consolidation of
outlying Bethware, Park Grace,
Grover, and Compact schools in
to the city administrative unit.
Largest anticipated expendi
ture in the current expense 'bud
get for the 1961-62 term is for
instructional service, $87,433.
•Maintenance of school prone
ty is expected to cost $81,357.
Fixed charges, such as rents, I
insurance, and social security ex-1
penses, are anticipated a!t $14,050.1
Auxiliary agencies, including
opration and maintenance of li
braries, textbook replacements,
rentals and clerical work in
volved therein, summer school!
operation, and lunchrooms, are
expected to cost the school sys- j
tern $50,222. - I
Total anticipated operating
expense revenues of $247,013 in-1
elude $75,888 in new capita allot
ment of county school taxes;!
$40,000 in special district school
supplementary taxes; $17,13f in
fines, forfeiture and penalties;
$2,448 in poll taxes; $15,078 ini
vocational education funds;
$3,536, home economics; $501,
textbook fund; $35,000, lunch
rooms; $8,702, driver training;
$10,000 National Defense pro
gram funds; $1,000, guidance and
counseling funds; $250, income
for use of school property; $4,627,
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Capitol Buildings
Most Unpopular
In Township
By MARTIN HARMON
Number 4 Township voters
weren’t quite in step with North
Carolina Tuesday, but almost
as 567 citizens approved only one
of the ten bond issues totaling
$01,665,000.
The lone issue favored, by n
margin of 38 votes in Number 4
Township was the $7.4 mHUio.i
issue for state mental hospitals.
Another was squeezingly Close.
Township citizens declined by
one vote to favor issuance of
$500,000 to provide state-share
funds for building of local hos
pitals.
Others relatively close includ
ed the township’s defeating, by
20 votes, the $1.1 million issue
for buildings at state training
and correctional institutions, and,
by 33 votes, the $1.48 million for
community colleges.
Other wise the margins of de
feat in Number 4 Township
ranged up to 157 votes, the citi
zens expressing themselves
strongly against the expenditur
re of $2.85 millions for erection
of a state surplus property build
ing for a new state office buaild
The margins of defeat were
largely piled up at Bethware,
Where the vote totals ranged
from 6 to 1 and 3 to X against
all proposals, and at Grover
where the “against” margins
ranged from 2 to 1 to 3 to 2.
Kings (Mountain voters were
more charitable. West King;
(Mountain voters favored wve.i
of the ten issues, recorded an ex
act split of 103 each on the state
ports bond proposal, narrowly
opposed by nine votes the pro
posal for state library bonds, and
registered principal' opposition
to the capital area building
bonds.
Bast Kings (Mountain voters
returned majorities in favor of
only three issues, for community
colleges, state mental institutions,
and the comparatively small hos
pitals issue, but returned only one
large margin "against,” again
for the uniformly unpopular cap
ital area buildings by 30 votes.
Though heavier than many ob*
servers had anticipated, only ji
small percentage of the township
eligibles cast bal'ots.
More than 2200 votes were
cast, for instance, in tooth of last
spring’s city elections, when out
side-eity limits citizens were not
eligible.
Bond Election
SIDELIGHTS
Though 567 citizens voted in
Number 4 Township, election
officials didn’t complain of ov
erwork during the 13 to 14
hour stint required to hold the
election and count the ballots.
* * * *
West Kings Mountain’s total
vote of 212 was high for the
township, as is customary, and
reported 142 "straight” tickets.
75 citizens marking ten “for”
and 67 marking ten “against.’*
Removal of the West Kings
Mountain precinct to West
school proved confusing to sev
eral voters and almost coot
three their chance to vote.
Shortly 'before the 6:30 closing
ing hour, Raymond Seism en
tered City Hall courtroom, to
vote. Told his name wasn’t cm
the East Kings Mountain books,
he said he usually voted art
Victory Chevrolet Company,
but found the former polling
place completely dark. He’d
hardly left when Mr. and Mrs.
Percy S. Lynn arrived and for
the same reason. All made the
West precinct in time, but it
was a near dead-heat with the
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NUMBER 4 TOWNSHIP UNOFFICIAL RETURNS _ STATE BOND ELECTION NOVEMBER 7. 1961
SSL8S Million j
Capitol Area f
Against |
Bethwarc
$1.1 Million |
Train. Schools |
Against j
S31 Million
State Schools
SI.48 Million
Local Collages
$2.56 Million
Archives
$13.5 Million
State Ports
$7.4 Million
Mental Hospitals
$500,000
Hospitals
$961,000
Natural Resour-e-1
Against |
For
Against’
Agriculture
$286,000
For
Against | For
Against i Fo.
East Kings Mountain
rest Kings Mountain
?-TOTALS
293
200
62 !
" 79'f~
"wT'
103 ]
23
91
52
Total of Actual Voters in Township 567